Is This Malnutrition? How to Approach Common Diagnostic Challenges
More practitioners are incorporating malnutrition diagnosis criteria into treatment of all patients. This diagnosis can be challenging outside of the hospital setting and when the signs and symptoms of malnutrition interplay with other patient factors including age and inflammation status.
This webinar will seek to review some of those nuanced situations by having experts in the field describe their recommendations for approaching malnutrition diagnostic challenges.
Learning Objectives
- Discuss malnutrition diagnosis in long-term care settings.
- Describe challenges in malnutrition diagnosis for older adults, including age-related changes in muscle mass.
- Identify the challenges of diagnosing malnutrition in patients with both acute and chronic illnesses.
Topics and Faculty
Malnutrition Diagnosis in the Long-Term Care Setting
Mary Litchford, PhD, RDN, President, CASE Software & Books, Greensboro, NC
Challenges in Malnutrition Diagnosis for Older Adults
John
Batsis, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine, School
of Medicine, Department of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public
Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Challenges in Patients with Acute and Chronic Illnesses
Gordon
Jensen, MD, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Research Emeritus; Professor
of Medicine and Nutrition Emeritus; Larner College of Medicine
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Moderator
Michelle Brown, MS, RD, LDN, CNSC, Assistant Director of Clinical Nutrition, University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL
Moderator
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